Work in Motion from Workpattern

Work Beyond Walls has happened. It went well. Really well, actually. So no more episodes that start with registration numbers! Before we go back inside the Boiler Shop, this episode is about the place the event was built for. Almost everyone interviewed for this series ended up talking about the North East sooner or later: where they grew up, why they stayed, why they left, and why they came back. Mark Catchlove of MillerKnoll arrived from Kent at 18 and checked he still had his wallet when s...

One week to go until Work Beyond Walls. 312 registrations against the 500 Paul needs... and a sneak peek inside the Boiler Shop with Hannah Naylor-Skeats, the Workpattern designer whose job it is to fill it. She doesn't describe herself as 'the floor plan police' for nothing. Check out this bonus episode to learn: What nobody knows yet about the acousticsWhy one speaker who overruns could ruin a dayWho's on the registration listWhich unexpected themes are emerging for the sessionsWhat the QR ...

Five weeks out. Fifty-one registrations of the 500 Paul needs. The optimism-o-meter hasn't moved all week. Everyone who tries to build a workplace design event starts by copying Clerkenwell Design Week. In this episode we find out why you can't - from the woman who curates its talks programme - and what you do instead. Katie Richardson explains that Clerkenwell works because of where it is, not what it is, and explains the closed loop every new event has to crack: brands come if you have visi...

Seven weeks before the doors open, Paul Glaister has one registration. Two, if you count the one he entered himself to check the form worked. He needs 500. This is the story of how a simple request from two interior designers - could you fill a railway arch with furniture for a couple of days? - became a two-day event in the post-industrial building where they built Rocket. We meet Beth Lawford at GT3 Architects, who asked the question and then refused to take any credit for it. Philippa Lobb...

Paul Glaister booked the biggest space he could find, then went away to work out what to put in it. Work Beyond Walls is two days at the Boiler Shop in Newcastle, a former locomotive works, and the kind of event you'd usually have to get a train to London for. Paul needs 500 people to sign up. When we started recording, he had one. Well, two, if you count the one he entered himself to check the form worked. Series 1 of Work in Motion, from Workpatten, is a six-part series about whether he can...